with us now, chief white house correspondent mike allen! what a segway! i just pulled it off. you got the morning playbook, mike. let s talk about megadonors and not i-phones unless you have a bad story will lots of money you had to spend unexpectedly. mike, republicans have big money spending who are trying to do more than win elections and trying to shape the republican party but who are these people? mika, they are led by paul singer. he is the hedge fund billionaire who we have seen on the show talking about immigration reform, gay rights, the state of israel are his top three issues. mika, in playbook today, i call this group the new koch s. this is out of sort of a moderate version of the koch brothers conservative network. another sign of how power is shifting in politics away from state parties and even national political parties and to these
the tonight show return to its birth place, new york city. it s the same place where johnny carson hosted it before he moved it to california. fallon has big shoes to follow after 22 run by jay leno. do you think he s such a nice guy. a great guy. do you think he is nervous? can you imagine? my lord. i don t know. he s a really talented gifted guy. so talented. i think he is going to do well. it will be fun to wash. speaking of fun to wash, with us now is chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen here with the morning playbook. good morning, mike. good morning, mika. happy holiday. thank you. house democrats plan to neutralize obamacare this year, explain. you will not hear a lot of democrats on the campaign trail
a special interview with the new host of the tonight show jimmy fallon that starts on february 17th. i m sure when you get here to the building and you re down at the evidentors you see the posters up for jimmy fallen and seth myers. a lot of changes here at 30 rock. it s great. a lot of new energy coming in. with us now is the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen. you re here with the morning playbook. happy valentine s day, mike! happy valentine s day and happy friday. there it is. agenda for the year is called an america that works. is it going to work for them, mike? they hope that it is because it s going to give them things to talk about in the midterm elections which is very different than going to the president s desk and being passed into law. this week, when the congress raised the debt ceiling that was the thing they had for the year.
over into adulthood. watch this. there is so much stress. no doubt about it for so many kids these days. technology, i think, keeps it going all night long. with us now is mike allen who is here with the morning playbook from politico. senator mitch mcconnell. i ve been catching this with kind of been very skeptical about this guy. mitch mcconnell has been under fire from the republican base and they say conservative grassroots organizations are supporting his challenges. yesterday, mcconnell s colleague from kentucky rand paul was asked why he endorsed the minority leader. the hardest question that i have for you, and it is it is this. why are you endorsing mitch mcconnell? i m here in texas today to endorse don huff.
better place literally. why don t you tell americans to turn their back on jesus at the same time. hall prin, we don t need it. it s poison. it is liquid poison. now that i hear that that s what i can have coca-cola running if my own home? think about it. i m going to take a bath in coke. i m going to, you know instead of tap water. make my tap water if that makes you take a bath i ll support it. with us chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen here with the morning playbook. so mike, this whole chris christie thing that s going on, regardless of how it ends up, a lot of people are saying what hurts chris christie may help another governor. tell us about it? yeah. a big beneficiary of chris christie s troubles, scott walker in wisconsin, you talked about him around the table so many times and people in washington are saying, wow, we re not so sure about chris christie now. who else is there? that s the big question, right? if not jeb who. th